Last week I began posting about some of the handmade wedding crafts I worked on for our wedding. This week I thought I'd tell you about the making of our reception table numbers.

When we started planning last fall, I spent a lot of time poking around on the web for ideas and discovered this beautiful wedding on Design Sponge. I used it as inspiration for a number of elements on our tables. I especially loved the idea of using tree stumps as a way to display the table numbers- it fit perfectly with our rustic, crafty wedding.

Then I got lucky. When we were picking out our Christmas tree I spotted a pile of sawed off tree stumps in the corner of the lot that were headed for the trash. Score!

A little sawing and filing and we had a place to put cards or signs or whatever we needed to display.

Next we needed the table number cards. I like to save my old calenders for just such a project. My very favorite one is by Snow & Graham.

I picked out two patterns that matched our chartreuse table runners and the napkin patterns (such as the yellow and grey pattern below).

Then sliced them up into 4 x 5" cards.

Next I printed out the table numbers on my inkjet printer and glued them to the back side.

They fit in the tree stumps perfectly.

I love how they looked on the tables with the flower arrangements, which were made by my very hard working friends (more on that later).